I never ceased be be amazed at the blog effect. It’s amazing how many connections I’ve made via blogging. I met with two blogging pastors today.

This morning Tally Wilgis, from Focal Point Church in Virginia Beach, came to hang out with our team for our Big Idea Meeting. Very cool to hear about their story. I have huge respect for anyone who is part of the church planting tribe! We also picked up a cool idea from them. They are “four-walling” their theater and showing children’s movies as an outreach. This last weekend they packed out the theater for Ice Age 2. Pretty cool way of letting people know you exist.

This afternoon I met with Rob Ketterling from River Valley Church in Apple Valley, Minnesota. He flew in for the day to hang out with some of our staff. I definitely got more ideas from him than he did from me! They’ve got a great thing going!

We actually met at a church planting event I spoke at last year and he got one of our Annual Ministry Reports. They ran with the idea and produced their own Annual Ministry Report that absolutely rocks!

I also got a couple sermon series ideas from him. They recently did a series called The Office and Deal or No Deal. I love the way they are redeeming culture by playing off those popular TV shows. Rob said they had eighteen decisions for Christ during Deal or No Deal.

Praise God and pass the popcorn!